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...always resisted the notion of a rotating regional claim to the job -- a concept not mentioned in the U.N. charter -- but it did not counter with a serious candidate of its own. A State Department official insisted that "that would be the kiss of death," and an American diplomat at the U.N. agreed it would be impolitic for the U.S. to use its big-power muscle: "We weren't going to be the 900-lb. gorilla...
...franchises are doing more to protect their assets -- the players -- from temptation. The N.B.A. has a mandatory rookie orientation program that includes a seminar on AIDS and a dramatized enactment of problems a player may face regarding women and friends. More and more N.B.A. teams are flying charter and unloading their athletes onto buses parked right on the tarmac. Some teams visiting Phoenix prefer hotels near the Coliseum to the Westcourt hotel, 10 miles away. The Utah Jazz books rooms at a hotel in New Jersey even when they are playing at Madison Square Garden. "New York has too much...
Havel reveals rather muscularly the importance of the Velvet Underground and Reed's lyrics to the formation of Charter 77 and the (not entirely uncoincidental) Velvet Revolution; and Selby scatters his explanation of the transition of Last Exitfrom book to film in between cascades of "fuckin...
...sample of things to come: in July, Oakland's black city manager, Henry L. Gardner, came under fire from a coalition of Latino groups because Latino Americans weren't sufficiently represented among the finalists for the position of Oakland fire chief. Though Gardner was not obligated under the city charter to find a candidate from every ethnic group, he was praised for a statesmanlike gesture when he extended the search for a period of 30 days. An additional Latino candidate was found, but the job went to an African American. Lewis Butler, who resurrected an organization called California Tomorrow...
...something of a miracle, then, that the political center fashioned after Mengistu's flight is holding. Though the interim government is dominated by Meles' Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, its ruling council includes representatives from 35 different parties. Last July it adopted a charter ensuring each ethnic nationality the right to self- determination. Step One -- 12 regional elections to be held by the end of the year -- will pave the way for local autonomy or even secession. Already, the Red Sea province of Eritrea has set up its own provisional government and will hold a United Nations-sponsored referendum...